Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-214) and index.
Contents:
The poetics of space and the politics of lesbian exile: Magaly Alabau's poetry and Sylvia Molloy's novel Certificate of absence -- Re-reading a tradition: lesbian eroticism in Magaly Alabau's Electra/Clitemnestra and Hermana -- Privileging lesbian eroticism: the works of Rosamaría Roffiel and Nancy Cárdenas -- Lesbian eroticism and the act of writing: Sylvia Molloy's Certificate of absence -- Sexual and political affirmation in Luz María Umpierre's The Margarita poems and ..Y otras desgracias. And other misfortunes.
Series:
Latin American studies ; v. 7 Garland reference library of social science ; v. 907
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